“The First Years” by Photographer Joshua Smith

Initially from Springfield, Missouri, Josh Smith earned his M.F.A. in pictures from the San Francisco Artwork Institute, and has been residing and dealing within the Bay Space since 2004. He’s at present a pictures teacher at Eastside School Prep, and resides in Pacifica, California, together with his spouse and three kids. 

In his ongoing collection, “The First Years,” revealed as a monograph by Darkish Spring Press in 2019, Smith paperwork his evolving household, and the methods wherein private identification is surrendered and reconfigured as a mum or dad. “It explores the complicated, usually conflicting feelings of parenthood, the place pleasure, vulnerability, confusion, and concern might happen unexpectedly,” he explains. “These opposing experiences are echoed within the charged luminance of the pictures, the place gentle reveals and enlivens the surfaces it encounters, whereas concurrently appearing as a software of erasure and reorientation. The ensuing photos function emotional lifelines to intangible moments of elation and concern—the darkish and the sunshine.”

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